Garment hanger and garment



April 9, 1946. s. FAL CETTl 2,398,138

GARMENT HANGER AND GARMENT SUSPENDER DEVICE I Filed Jan. 28, 1944 INVENTOR, jfeve z zlcez ic',

Patented Apr. 9, 1946 GARMENT HANGER AND GARMENT SUSPENDER DEVICE I Steve Falcetti, Forest Hills, N. Y. Application January 28, 1944, Serial No. 519,991; I

3 Claims.

This invention relates to a device for hanging coats, overcoats, and similar garments, and wherewith may be also maintained in suspension other garments, as trousers, skirts, and kindred articles.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a device for both of the above purposes, which will be conveniently and economically manufacturable, salable at very low cost, conveniently and economically utilizable, light, strong, durable, improved, and wherewith different types of garments may be simultaneously maintained in properly hung and suspended condition, without creasing, impairment, or loss of essential form.

Other objects and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of the garment hanger and garment suspender, constituting the invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the device shown in Fig. 1.

Fig, 3 is an end elevational view of the device shown in Fig. 1, in an enlarged scale, the main body of the device being indicated as broken away for clearness and convenience of illustration.

Fig. 4 is a front elevational view, similar to Fig. 1, showing a device which is a modification of the invention.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the device shown in Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is an end elevational view, similar to Fig. 3, of the device shown in Fig. 4.

Fig. 7 is a plan view, in a further enlarged scale, illustrating a fitting utilized in connection with the suspender legs shown in Figs. 3, 6.

The garment hanger and garment suspender device I, Figs, 1, 2, consists of two pieces or lengths of wire 2, 3, the former being a thinner wire and the latter of a thicker or heavier gauge. In manufacture of the hanger, the wire 2 is bent upon itself at the middle portion thereof and configurated to form the hook 4 of the hanger, as shown in Fig. 1. From said hook the wire 2 is twisted upon itself to form the stem 5-, and from the stem the wire 2 is intertwisted with the middle portion of the wire 3 to form the middle portions Ii of the hanger-bar 1. At the terminal 6a of each bar-portion 6 the wires 2, 3 are spread apart and configurated into loops 8 to form the shoulder-portions of the hanger-bar I, in the manner shown in Fig. 2. At the terminal 6b of each loop 8 the wires 2, 3 are again intertwisted to form the short stem 9, from which project the end portions 2a, 3a of the respective wires, conpositionthe pin- I0 protrudes through the eye II.

Astride the legs 2a, 3a is located a fitting I2 consisting of a piece of wire bent to provide a crossbar l3 having terminal rings I4, Fig. 7, to embrace the legs. The fitting I2 is therefore slidable upwardly and downwardly along the legs 2a, 3a, from an upward position shown by the dash and dot lines to the lowered position illustrated. Upon disposing the fitting I2 to said upward position, therefore, the legs 2a, 3a become distended from each other, while sliding said fitting downwardly brings the legs together, with the pronged terminus III of the former penetrating the eye II of the latter.

In utilizing the garment hanger and garment suspender device I, its hook 4 and bar I are resorted to for hanging coats and kindred garments, as is performed with any ordinary garment hanger, while its suspending elements 2a, 3a are used for suspending trousers, skirts, etc., in the manner fully described and illustrated in my Patent 2,301,029 issued Nov. 3, 1942, i. e., shifting the fitting I2 upwardly to distend the legs 2a, 3a, slipping the margin of the garment between said legs, and then slidin the fitting I2 downwardly, whereupon the prongs I0 penetrate the garment and entering the eyes I I maintain it in efiiciently suspended condition by the device I.

In the device I, Figs. 1, 2, one of the wires 3 comprising the garment hanger is of a heavier auge than wire 2, so as to impart to the hanger maximum strength and lightness for suspending and hanging garments of heavier types. For lighter garments, however, a similer device I5 may be made in accordance with the modification of the invention, as illustrated in Figs. 4, 5, 6, wherein the wires I6, I! of which it consists are of similar thinness. In all other respects the device I5 is similar to the device I, and is utilized accordingly. In this modification, the suspender leg 2a is shown provided with a loop I8 which presses against the rim of the eye II when the fitting I2 is lowered to its operative position. The device I5, therefore is adaptable for sustaining garments in which penetration by a pin III, as in Fig. 3, is not desired.

Variations may be resorted to within the scopeof the invention, and portions of the improvements may be used without others.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A coat hanger and garment suspender device consisting of one longer wire and one shorter wire, the median portion of said longer wire being bent upon itself and configurated to form a hook for the hanger, said portion being twisted upon itself downwardly away from said hook to form a stem, said longer wire separating away from said stem rightwardly and leftwardly and inter twisting with the median portion of said shorter wire to form a rightwardly and leftwardly median portion of said coat hanger,- the wires composing each of said median portions of the coat hanger separating away from each other and-being configurated to jointly form a loop fora shoulder portion of the coat hanger, the wire portionsvat i longer wire separating away from said stem right wardly and leftwardly and intertwisting with the median portion of said shorter wire to form a rightwardly and leftwardly median portion of said coat hanger, the wires composing each of said median portions of the coat hanger separating away from each other and being configurated to jointly form a loop for a shoulder portion of the coat hanger, the wire portions at the terminal of each of said loops being secured to each other, and the wire portions composing each of said securings extending from the securing downwardly I to form a pair of legs for the garment suspender.

31A coat hanger and garment suspender device consisting of one longer wire and one shorter wire, the median portion of said longer wire being bent upon itself and configurated to form a hookfor the hanger 'and'a stem, said longer wire separating away from said stem rightwardly and leftwardly and intertwisting with the median portion of. said' shorter wire to form a rightwardly and portions extending therefrom downwardly to form a pair of legsfor the garment su pender. STEVE FALCETTI. 

